Juan is not so unfeeling towards his sons. The issue is, the emperor has demanded that they prove their loyalty. Isabella said before that Juan didn’t approve of the match between Miguel and Dolores. The problem is, the war Carcel is being sent to has everyone saying he will die. It’s supposedly a death trap and there’s truth in it. So Juan would rather go through with an aristocratic marriage so that Carcel wouldn’t have to die and both of his sons stay alive.
To me the problem is that the imperial family is demanding Escalante prove their loyalty by sacrificing one of their sons when there is no cause whatsoever for the imperial family to doubt Escalante. It can only mean someone had been whispering in the ears of the emperor. As the Chinese saying goes: keeping the emperor’s company is like living with a tiger. Just one doubt in his mind can lead to the fall of a family.
Juan is not so unfeeling towards his sons. The issue is, the emperor has demanded that they prove their loyalty. Isabella said before that Juan didn’t approve of the match between Miguel and Dolores. The problem is, the war Carcel is being sent to has everyone saying he will die. It’s supposedly a death trap and there’s truth in it. So Juan would rather go through with an aristocratic marriage so that Carcel wouldn’t have to die and both of his sons stay alive.
To me the problem is that the imperial family is demanding Escalante prove their loyalty by sacrificing one of their sons when there is no cause whatsoever for the imperial family to doubt Escalante. It can only mean someone had been whispering in the ears of the emperor. As the Chinese saying goes: keeping the emperor’s company is like living with a tiger. Just one doubt in his mind can lead to the fall of a family.